Man walks along the railroad track   He's Goin' some place, there's no turnin' back    The Highway Patrol chopper comin' up over the ridge   Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge   The shelter line stretchin' around the corner   Welcome to the New World Order   Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest   No job, no home, no peace, no rest, NO REST!      And The highway is alive tonight   Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes   I'm sitting down here in the campfire light   Searchin' for the Ghost of Tom Joad      He pulls his prayer book out of a sleepin' bag   The preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag   He's waitin' for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last   In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass   With a one way ticket to the promised land   With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand   Lookin' for a pillow of solid rock   Bathin' in the cities' aqueducts      And The highway is alive tonight   Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light   With the Ghost of old Tom Joad      Guitar Solo      Now Tom Said; "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy   Wherever a hungry new born baby cries   Whereever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air   Look for me ma'    I'll be there   Wherever somebodies stuglin' for a place to stand   For a decent job or a helpin' hand   Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free   Look in their eyes ma,    You'll see me! (repeat 8 times)      And the highway is alive tonight   nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes   I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light   With the Ghost of Tom Joad.